0 Someone who is well read has learned a lot of information on different subjects by reading.
1 having read many important books
The martyrologist thus emerges as an extremely well-read author, and not just in a ninth-century context.
There is little here that the well-read historian does not already know.
Lexical and syntactic knowledge of written narrative held by well-read-to kindergartners and second graders.
The well-read-to children also gave richer ' 'readings' ' of the wordless picture book by providing more explicit background information and clearer reference to characters and events depicted.
The fact of a physiological conversation between the newly-fertilised egg, the enveloping duct system, and the adjacent gonad should not cause surprise in well-read audiences of the 1980s.
We are trying to write letters next door and this well-read speech is making so much noise that we can hardly hear ourselves think.
He is a well-read, learned man of kindly disposition and of moderate views.
An ex-miner, he was very intelligent and well-read, and had a philosophical turn of mind.